Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoUN / SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT
Download
There is no media available to download.
Share
STORY: UN / SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT
TRT: 1:58
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK / RECENT / FILE
RECENT - UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
22 SEPTEMBER 2011, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, summit on sexual violence
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In 2009, I visited the HEAL Africa hospital in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What I saw there shocked, saddened and, above all, angered me. I met women, girls and boys who had been raped and horrifically abused. Their bodies were defiled and their lives devastated as part of a systematic tactic of war. I left the region determined to do more to help the victims, to end impunity for perpetrators and to prevent such violence in the first place.”
4. Cutaway, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Margot Wallström, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations:
“Sexual violence I would say is the only human rights violation that considered inevitable. Afterall it has been an aspect of conflict since antiquity with girls and women considered as teh spoils of war. We often hear sexual violence is simply entrenched in the culture, perhaps it’s understandable then that the question is asked is our fight against sexual violence is hopeless.”
FILE - MONUC - 28 FEBRUARY 2009, GOMA, NORTH KIVU PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
6. Wide shot, banner on "HEAL AFRICA HOSPITAL" building
7. Pan right, from women to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon clapping
8. Zoom in, Ban Ki-moon lifting child
9. Pan left, from women with sewing machines to Ban Ki-moon
10. Wide shot, coming out of ward
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (22 Sept) that women, men and children continue to be subjected to sexual violence wherever conflict exists and that “their bodies were defiled and their lives devastated as part of a systematic tactic of war.”
Addressing the Mini-Summit on Cooperation with Member States on Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ban talked about his visit to a HEAL Africa hospital in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2009 where he met victims of sexual violence.
“I left the region determined to do more to help the victims, to end impunity for perpetrators and to prevent such violence in the first place,” he added.
HEAL Africa is a small Congolese grassroots not-for-profit association that cares for victims of sexual violence in conflict-torn eastern DRC. Based in the city of Goma, the organization was formed in 1996 by Congolese orthopaedic surgeon Jo Lusi and his wife, Lyn, a prominent social activist.
Also speaking at the Summit was Margot Wallström, Ban’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. She called sexual violence “the only human rights violation that considered inevitable.”
The Summit, organized by Wallström’s office, aimed to take stock of challenges and achievements in addressing sexual violence in conflict.
